They basically need to do 2 things.

1) use Dust 514 as a big sink where we pay Dust players to kill enemy planets for isk. They use the isk to buy NPC goods in the store.

or

2) rise Hi-sec taxes for more of an isk sink and to promote low and null sec.

so raising taxes would promote Low and Null sec ?

really?

about the OP proposal anything to bring down the size of an alliance and maybe (i said maybe) make Null more attractive to smaller corps and /or alliances ,i am all for it.

i love this thread

Why not just increase the market tax from the current 1% to 21%?
That should take out allot of isk from the game, since there is allot of trading going on.
Or if 21% is to high, 10% trade tax then?

Hey if there was less isk in the economy, people would have less money and wouldn't want to fly expensive ships for PvP because they would be too shiny and precious. Everyone would go back to the old days when they used rookie ship fleets and it took us a month of hard grinding to save up for a Bantam.

Ok here we go: on it's own- isk has very little value aside from it's purchasing power. Insurance payouts are determined arbitrarily from the base mineral value of a ships hull. All ships and and modules are created from minerals. Minerals are the building blocks of New Eden.

Regardless of how I aquired said hull, it always will have a base mineral value, thereby- destroying it is the same as if I came along and blew up your jetcan full of minerals. You just lost that commodity.

So if I have a 200m smartbombing Scorpion and it gets destroyed, I get about 40m insurance. Let's say 10m in mods drop and someone scoops that up. Probably 5m or so in salvage. Where did the other 145m go?

Hey if there was less isk in the economy, people would have less money and wouldn't want to fly expensive ships for PvP because they would be too shiny and precious. Everyone would go back to the old days when they used rookie ship fleets and it took us a month of hard grinding to save up for a Bantam.

Or we could cut ever single number related to isk (bounties, wallet amounts, buy orders, sell orders, contracts, and everything else) in half. Nothing would change effectively, but there'd be much less isk in the economy. (Cut non-percentage taxes in half as well, i.e. 1m per day or whatever it is for corps and wardecs)

what I propose was not just about reducing the isk in the economy, it's also a conflict driver. It encourages large mega alliances to regroup into smaller groups. Smaller groups tend to be easier to unseat from their long established "homes". It might open the door to some smaller alliances that are looking to own some space.

If you want to address isk inflation, you'd need to look at NPC bounties. Anything else is peanuts.

The answer to the OP's proposal is "no". The problem isn't nullsec alliances with too much money, the problem is too much isk flowing into highsec.

So if I have a 200m smartbombing Scorpion and it gets destroyed, I get about 40m insurance. Let's say 10m in mods drop and someone scoops that up. Probably 5m or so in salvage. Where did the other 145m go?

I think we need some CCP Diagoras stats to tell us who has all the isk.

I don't know, a high NPC corp tax that encourages players to get out of NPC corps and into player owned corporations and alliances could be an interesting mechanic.

No it doesn't. You could blast the alliance system entirely out, as long as there's an ability to set individual standings and unified coms via jabber/teamspeak what have you it won't affect anything.

At most it will add complication.

I hope you told VR you were shooting blues? I wish I could have been there but as a pubbie I feel I wouldn't have made it further than the first null gate

look man I know you is a dumb but if you read the OP, you'll notice we're talking about making 0.0 and low interesting by nerfing large alliances

going by the OP's proposal, that means each NPC corp member gets fined "7.55 unquadragintillion" a week. Do you think that is sufficient?

no wanting to make 0.0 and low sec more interesting by nerfing high is dumb

so raising taxes would promote Low and Null sec ?

really?

*cough* nullsec bounties *cough*